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+
+TeXhax Digest Thursday, 19 December 1996 Volume 96 : Number 015
+
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ New version of AMS-LaTeX released
+ Latex
+ e-TeX is released
+ Plain TeX query about \font
+ correct way to write Makefile?
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>
+Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 08:24:45 -0500 (EST)
+Subject: New version of AMS-LaTeX released
+
+An interim release of the AMS-LaTeX version 1.2 macro collection has
+been posted.
+
+This release fixes a number of bugs, and documents others that have
+not yet been fixed, but are known and are on the list for attention
+when time becomes available. The documentation has been extensively
+revised and users are requested to pay careful attention to the
+READ.ME file. In particular, AMS-LaTeX 1.2 now requires a version
+of LaTeX2e no earlier than December 1994.
+
+The canonical home site for this collection is e-math.ams.org for ftp,
+or at http://www.ams.org/tex for those who prefer a Web connection.
+The collection has also been mirrored onto CTAN (locations shown are
+relative to the root of the tex archive at the particular site):
+
+ location on e-math: location on CTAN:
+
+ /pub/tex/amslatex under macros/latex/packages/amslatex
+
+The other AMS collections are available from the same AMS servers
+and have now been installed on CTAN in these new locations:
+
+ location on e-math: location on CTAN:
+
+ /pub/tex/amsfonts under fonts/amsfonts
+ /pub/tex/amsltx11 under macros/latex209/contrib/amslatex
+ /pub/tex/amstex under macros/amstex
+
+At CTAN, the changes have been made at ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.dante.de;
+they will propagate to the mirrors in due course.
+
+Only the AMS-LaTeX collection has been updated; some minor changes
+are under construction in the AMSFonts and AMS-TeX collections, and
+a separate announcement will be made when these are posted.
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: zadokh@rafael.co.il (Zadok Hougui)
+Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:23:22 +0200
+Subject: Latex
+
+Hi
+Do you know where I could download a copy of Latex for use on an IBM PC
+compatible? (for a windows 3.1 or windows 95 environment)
+Thanks
+Zadok
+==========================================================================
+Sadok Hougui
+32 Lehi St.
+Kiryat Bialik, 27000
+Israel
+
+Home phone: (972)-4-8740167
+e-mail: zadokh@rafael.co.il
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Philip Taylor <CHAA006@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk>
+Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:55:17 GMT
+Subject: e-TeX is released
+
+Dear Colleagues --
+
+I am delighted to be able to tell you that after a protracted period of
+design and development, e-TeX is now formally released. In summary, e-TeX
+is an evolutionary (rather that revolutionary) development of TeX, and is
+100%-compatible, including compatibility at the level of the TRIP test.
+However, it is also capable of operating in "extended" mode, in which case
+it adds approximately 30 new primitives to the TeX language whilst remaining
+completely compatible with TeX if none of the new primitives are used, and in
+"enhanced" mode, in which case it adds functionality (for the first release,
+TeX--XeT) at the expense of compatibility.
+
+Reference implementations are available for VMS (both VAX & AXP) and MS/DOS,
+the former implementation being primarily the work of Christian Spieler whilst
+the latter is the work of Peter Breitenlohner. As this message is being
+sent to TeX-Implementors as well as to the NTS and TeX lists, we hope that new
+implementations will become available in the near future.
+
+For further information on e-TeX, and for access to the sources and reference
+implementations, please see:
+
+ http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/e-TeX/
+
+Philip Taylor,
+for and on behalf of the e-TeX team / NTS group.
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: cgm@ssci.liv.ac.uk (Colin Mason)
+Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:45:13 GMT
+Subject: Plain TeX query about \font
+
+If you do:
+
+ \font\titlefont=cmssdc10
+ \ifx\titlefont\nullfont
+ \wlog{Using \string\nullfont}%
+ \fi
+ \bye
+
+You get the following message in the log file:
+
+ Using \nullfont
+
+But if there is a blank line between the \font... and the \ifx... this does not
+happen. I would not expect to get the message anyway so why does it happen and
+why does inserting a blank line cure it?
+
+Thanks in advance for any help.
+
+Colin Mason.
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com>
+Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 09:30:11 -0800
+Subject: correct way to write Makefile?
+
+What's the correct way to create a Makefile for LaTeX?
+I'm not sure how to capture the business about having to run:
+ latex (Extract citations.)
+ bibtex (Create the bibliography.)
+ latex (Incorporate bibliography.)
+ latex (Resolve references.)
+
+Thanks,
+/7\'7 Steve Kelem (408)879-5347 Steve.Kelem@xilinx.com
+\\ ` Xilinx FAX: (408)377-3259
+// 2100 Logic Drive
+\\/.\ San Jose, California 95124
+
+So far, I have the following, but it doesn't capture the above requirements.
+
+.SUFFIXES : $(LATEX_SUFFIXES) $(SUFFIXES)
+
+LATEX_SUFFIXES = .aux .bbl .blg .dvi .ilg .idx .ind .lof .log .lot .toc
+
+all : pop.ps
+
+%.ps : %.dvi
+ dvips OPTIONS $*.dvi
+
+
+%.ind : %.idx
+ makeindex $*
+
+%.bbl : %.aux
+ bibtex $*
+
+%.dvi %.aux : %.tex
+ latex $*.tex
+
+------------------------------
+
+End of TeXhax Digest V96 #15
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